[rubyist5eva]

Window snapping exists in macOS, hold the option key while hovering over the zoom button and the snapping options pop up in a tooltip.

Personally, I like that macOS is more or less unchanged. It’s familiar, and I don’t have to worry about big sweeping changes like Windows 8 or Gnome 3 and Gnome 40.

For everything else there’s usually a tiny utility app you can install the gives you the functionality and runs in the background using very little resources.

[adolph]

As long time Mac and relatively recent cross platform user, native window snapping is a joke in macOS made tolerable by Magnet. Option just changes the green button mode from new workspace (or whatever its called) to whole screen. In most Windows OSes the eponymous key plus an arrow will cycle the UI window through helpful positions of whole, half, quarter.

The sibling comment challenges the parent regarding the importance of window snapping. I used to think it wasn't a big deal. I was accustomed to mousing windows here and there and seeing bits of other things behind. After using iOS I have a new appreciation for focus, simplicity and reduced non-functional effort.

A significant amount of user-time in a standard desktop GUI is spent changing application and window contexts. Why wouldn't it be as much a first class concern as brushed metal and lickability?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/magnet/id441258766?mt=12

[rubyist5eva]

> Option just changes the green button mode from new workspace (or whatever its called) to whole screen.

Hover for a second, a tooltip will pop-up for left-snap and right-snap. If you don’t hold Option it does the workspace version like iPad where it splits into a new workspace.

[mirthflat83]

I have honestly never felt the need for snapping for almost a decade. Just use multiple monitors if you really need that screen estate

[adolph]

Poor window management isn't a great argument for more monitors. That's just using your neck to make up for a deficient UI.

[totalZero]

I use multiple monitors and that simply means I have to do more work to snap windows. The windows sometimes migrate from desktop to desktop upon startup and wake, and there are more of them to deal with when I want to rearrange things.

[turkeywelder]

ohh that option thing is well hidden, thanks for that. Is there a keyboard shortcut for it?

[rubyist5eva]

I haven’t found one but I never really dug into the keyboard shortcut settings because I use Rectangle anyway.